Blackburn mixes fragments from her own life with a series of eighteen ‘songs’ and all sorts of stories about the places and the people she meets in her quest to get closer to an understanding of Doggerland
Eliot Prize
and from natural wonderment to a greater understanding of the world around us
Clive James explored the treasure-house of his mind: the poems he knew best
‘Her knowledge of botany
Gloria by Selima Hill #Translatedpoetry Blackburn mixes fragments from herWinner of The King's Gold Medal for Poetry, 2022 Selima Hills poetry has been called wanton, wildly imaginative, tender, intelligent, dangerous, defiant, subversive and startling. All these qualities are strongly present throughout Gloria, a comprehensive selection drawn from ten formally diverse and thematically unified collections, each offering wild variations on her abiding themes: womens identities, love and loss, repression and abuse, family